“Drowned” in the garbage the tourist island of Corfu

When the coach passes by the Cannon of Corfu, out from the Mon repos, or heading towards Paleokastritsa,…
guides hear tourists murmuring strongly behind their backs. They are comments of disapproval, as well as for fifteen days the “princess of the Ionian sea” is literally drowning in trash. The inhabitants of the Τεμπλονίου have blockaded the LANDFILL sites in protest of the conditions of operation and claiming that the repository has become saturated. “For the British, the French or the Belgians, the problem of waste management, it looks like something unreal, as well as in their home countries have long since resolved,” comments ms Maria Voulgaris, president of the tour guides in Corfu, issued a statement expressing their concern. “Today, the information is diffused in a split second”, it completes the same, “a picture and a comment on facebook is enough to become evil”.
“The only thing that concerns me is the health of the average of Corfu, tourists, and forget us, they’ll be back,” he says in “K” mrs Magda Παπανικολοπούλου, president of the Εξωραϊστικού and Cultural Association Τεμπλονίου, burdened by illegal dumps since 1986. “The LANDFILL was in operation in 2002, but without the official license of operation”, explains the same. “The biological cleaning has never worked, with the result that the στραγγίδια to end up in the lake Μπρετάνου and thus contaminated the entire aquifer”. A complex of lakes which are designated by presidential decree in 2012 as a “protected island υδρότοποι”, located around the LANDFILL. “In the first cell is not possible landfilling, have created a mountain of garbage 20 meters”. Besides, a team of inspectors on the Environment in 2007 imposed a fine for exceeding of the cell, non-combustion of biogas and non-operation of the biological treatment. For the fast saturation of the capacity of the LANDFILL may be responsible that the area transported the waste, not only of five municipalities, but the whole of Corfu, as the island of Paxos and the Διαπόντιων Islands… Also, has never worked the 80% αποπερατωμένος LANDFILL Lefkimi. In the intervening years, the residents and the state of play of the cat with the mouse. “The conclusion of the E.E. he spoke for 45 offences, which “magically” decreased to 16 and a fine of 290.000 euro’, stresses mrs Παπανικολοπούλου, “in December it was announced that the reference in the European Court of justice”. This is the last straw in the decision for placement of the integrated management system and baler re in Temploni.
The mayor of Corfu, Costas Νικολούζος admits that in Temploni has been committed for the past 30 years, environmental crime. “We proclaim to all the tons that the inhabitants have a right, as, however, persist in their position, condemning the island with 3,000 tons of trash in the streets, they lose,” says to the “T”, “I ask them to do two more months of patience”. The same appeal addressed to the minister Panagiotis Κουρουμπλής, who visited an extraordinary island on Sunday. This time estimate that it will install on the island an integrated management system. “We have secured funding and the study of environmental terms was issued in early June,” concludes the mayor, who indicates ready to dispense in future, the Temploni from the baler, and waste management.
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